Pocket-book for bills or bank-notes.



No. 773,892. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

S. N. HOLSAPPLB.v

POCKET BOOK FOR BILLS OR BANK NOTES.

APPLIGATION FILED FEB 17, 1903.

NO MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

PATENT Trice.

SAMUEL N. HOLSAPPLE, OF HUDSON, NE\V YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,392, dated October 25, 1904.

Application filed February 17, 1903. Serial No. 143,843- (ITo model.)

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Be it known that I, SAMUEL N. HoLsAPPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of NewYork, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books for Bills or Bank-Notes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket-book for bills or bank-notes.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and convenient form of pocket-book binder by means of which financial and commercial houses (banks in particular) paying out large sums of money may put up bills or bank-notes of any desired denomination and amounting to any desired aggregate sum in pad form and bound within a cover or inclosure, so as to tender a customer, depositor, or payee his money in a pocket-book of compact form and convenient shape for carrying in the pocket and for the ready removal of one or more bills at a time.

To this end the invention consists of certain features of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully clescribed, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pocket-book binder embodying my invention, the top cover being thrown back to expose the pad of bills bound therein. Fig. Qis a side elevation of the same, showing the covers closed. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a side view of a modified form of pocket-book binder, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of the clasp thereof.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, A represents a pocket-book binder, of leather or other suitable material, comprising a back a and top and bottom covers 6 and c. The bills or bank-notes D are bound together and to a holder or carrier, here shown as a piece of cardboard, or other backing D in any well-known or approved way to form a pad, which is inclosed between the covers Z) c. The backingD has an end extension (Z for connection with an angle reinforcing-strip (Z, secured to or formed upon the back a, said extension and strip being formed with registween the covers 6 a.

clamp the bank-notes, as shown.

tering apertures cl" for passage of fastenings (Z by means of which the pad is secured be- As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, this strip (Z is of L form, and one of its arms, (Z bears against the back a and its other arm, (Z against the adjacent portion of the cover 0. An elastic band E, fixed to the bottom cover 0, is provided to hold the covers closed and clasped against the pad or to clasp the pad to the bottom cover 0, as desired. In some cases the pad may be stitched to the arm of the strip (Z, the stitches extending across one of the end marginal edges of the bills to enable the latter to be stripped off one by one without mutilation. It will be seen that by this construction a number of national bills .or bank-notes of any denomination and amounting to any desired aggregate sum may be bound in compact form, so as to be conveniently carried in the pocket and so that one or more bills may be stripped from the pad without detaching the others. Banks and other financial and commercial houses may thus tender to their patrons sums of money in more convenient form for carrying and handling, and where the patron desires a large number of small billssay fifty one-dollar billsinstead of the usual bulky package a 'neat book containing the desired sum will be handed out. The manifold advantages of my invention will be readily perceived and appreciated without further statement.

The construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 providesa pocket-book binder more particularly designed for loose bills, but which is equally applicable for holding bills secured together in pad form. The bills or banknotes D in this case are held at one end by a holder or carrier in the form of a spring-clasp F, consisting of a U-shaped frame f, having its back f bearing against and secured to the back a of the book and its arms f f bearing against the adjacent portions of the covers 6 and c. In this U-shaped frame is disposed a similarly-shaped spring f, riveted, as at to the back of the clasp and having its arms bent to form spring-jaws f to receive and These jaws expand to receive the notes and hold the same firmly against casual disconnection or displacement. In removing one or more bills the free ends of the same are turned up, and then upon clasping the remaining bills and bottom cover in one hand the bills to be removed may be detached from the clasp by a quick pull without disturbing any of the other bills, as will be readily understood.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of my invention will be readily apparent, it is thought, without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

l. Apocket-book for holdinga pad or stack of bank bills or notes, comprising a back, covers connected to the back and adapted to lie against opposite sides of the stack, an angle reinforcing-strip stiffening the back, said strip having portions bearing against the back and at least one of said covers, means for supportl ing a stack of bills, and fastening means formed independent of both the reinforcing-strip and supporting means and passing through one of the portions of said reinforcing-strip and also through said supporting means and securing the stack between the covers of the book, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a binder comprising front and back covers and a back, a stack of bank bills or notes arranged between said covers, a backing carrying said stack, said backing having a portion extended beyond the inner end of the stack, a reinforcing-strip upon the back of the binder, said strip having portions bearing against the back and at least one of said covers, and fastening means passing through one of the portions of said strip and extension of the backing and fastening the inner end of the stack to the binder, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL N. HOLSAPPLE.

WVitnesses:

A. FRANK E. Simon, ALFRED BRUCE OHAOE. 

